The Download: Hong Kong’s crypto obsession, and digitizing India’s documents
The museum building houses the largest reference library for Gandhian philosophy in the state of Karnataka, and over the next...
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Why Hong Kong is still bullish on crypto
The day after his conviction, I was at Hong Kong FinTech Week 2023, a new annual conference hosted by the...
The Download: combating Parkinson’s with implants, and counting carbon’s cost
The news: A man with Parkinson’s disease has regained the ability to walk after physicians implanted a small device into...
A man with Parkinson’s regained the ability to walk thanks to a spinal implant
Marc is the first and only person to have received the new spinal neuroprosthesis, a small device containing electrodes placed...
The Download: military personnel data for sale, and AI watermarking
For as little as $0.12 per record, data brokers in the US are selling sensitive private data about both active-duty...
It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US military personnel
The year-long study, which was funded in part by the US Military Academy at West Point, highlights the extreme privacy...
The inside scoop on watermarking and content authentication
C2PA focuses primarily on content authentication through a protocol it calls Content Credentials, though the group says its technology can...
Disneys Buys Hulu: House Of Mouse To Acquire Remaining Comcast Share
(Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesKey takeaways Disney has agreed to buy out...
The Download: NASA’s tiny spacecraft, and the RSV vaccine shortage
Since the 1970s, we’ve sent a lot of big things to Mars. But when NASA successfully sent twin Mars Cube...
RSV is on the rise but preventative drugs are in short supply
This year we were supposed to have more tools than ever before to protect kids from RSV (short for respiratory...
AI gains momentum in core manufacturing services functions
Disruption in manufacturing and the supply chain has pushed businesses toward digital transformation as they seek ways to stay competitive....
CVS, Yum! Brands And Wayfair Report Earnings – Here’s How They Fared
(Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images)Getty ImagesKey takeaways CVS was up on revenue and earnings, but lowered its...
The Download: cybercriminals’ Pacific paradise, and the carbon offset crash
Tokelau, a string of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last...
The growing signs of trouble for global carbon markets
But what counts as quality? Carbon Direct says it can include carefully managed and closely monitored reforestation efforts or the burying...
How a tiny Pacific Island became the global capital of cybercrime
It was from an early internet entrepreneur from Amsterdam, named Joost Zuurbier. He wanted to manage Tokelau’s country-code top-level domain,...
Humans at the heart of generative AI
Generative AI is becoming a key component of business operations and customer service interactions today. According to Salesforce research, three...
The Download: tech’s hardest problems, and cancer-fighting cell therapies
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems, yet one of the hardest things is knowing where to focus our...
China wants to win the gene therapy race—and it’ll spend millions
On Friday, Shu Yilai, a professor and practicing surgeon at Fudan University in Shanghai, shared results of the trial, in...
What are the hardest problems in tech we should be more focused on as a society?
Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing...
Tackling our biggest problems
We have employed it to broadcast hateful rhetoric and divisive ideologies. We have fine-tuned our machines to kill each other...